EPOCA organised this fall, together with the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP,) the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program (OCB), and the Kiel Excellence Cluster «The Future Ocean», an international research workshop on best
practices for ocean acidification research (19 - 21 November 2008 in Kiel, Germany; chair: Ulf Riebesell).
And her budget request to the legislature, to be released next month, will include $ 3.3 million to implement the report's recommendations and establish a new
center for ocean acidification at UW.
U.S. coastal communities better start
preparing for ocean acidification now, especially if we want scallops, oysters and other shellfish to keep appearing on our dinnerplates.
The workshop participants (approximately 40 scientist from 10 countries) are in the process of producing a Guide to Best
Practices for Ocean Acidification Research and Data Reporting.
In «Preparing to manage coral
reefs for ocean acidification: lessons from coral bleaching,» Dr. Elizabeth McLeod and her co-authors discuss how management strategies designed to address coral bleaching can be modified to address the impacts of ocean acidification.
While this is an appropriate approach in view of the scarcity of biological information, there is a clear need to establish a reliable data base on tolerance
levels for ocean acidification in key groups of ocean - acidification sensitive marine organisms in order to reach a more informed recommendation.
Lubchenco admitted during the hearing that cutting the
funding for ocean acidification monitoring «is one of those choices that I'm not happy about because it's a program that is very, very important.
GOA - ON is a collaborative international approach to document the status and progress of ocean acidification in open - ocean, coastal, and estuarine environments, to understand the drivers and impacts of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems, and to provide spatially and temporally resolved biogeochemical data necessary to optimize
modeling for ocean acidification.
Currently, the best guidance for managing
for ocean acidification involves prioritizing management towards protecting natural refugia and managing local stressors on reefs.
Carbon - use strategies in macroalgae: differential responses to lowered pH and implications for ocean acidification
What L&D neglect to mention is that Caldeira has actually come out against geoengineering using SO2 at this time for reasons entirely unrelated to global temperatures — it only treats one of the symptoms (rising global temperatures), does
nothing for ocean acidification and other carbon dioxide (CO2) related problems, and is therefore too risky.
CO2 is said to be responsible for global warming that is not occurring, for accelerated sea level rise that is not occurring, for net glacial and sea ice melt that is not occurring,
for ocean acidification that is not occurring, and for increasing extreme weather that is not occurring.»
[64] James P. Barry, Toby Tyrrell Lina Hansson, Gian - Kasper Plattner Jean - Pierre Gattuso Atmospheric CO2 targets
for ocean acidification perturbation experiments pp. 53 - 66 in Guide to best practices for ocean acidification research and data reporting Edited by U. Riebesell, V. J. Fabry, L. Hansson and J. - P.